Lyrics to
I Need You Tonight

This version of I Need You Tonight was released by Reo Speedwagon in 1979.

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How can I show you?
I take back what I told you.
‘Cause something happens when I hold you,
And that makes everything all right.
And oh… oh… I need you tonight.
I just need you tonight.
I wrote all I can write.
I just need you tonight.

In need you tonight.

Secrets I keep here.
Buried so very deep here.
If only somehow you could sleep here,
you’d make everything all right.

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Reo Speedwagon has released many songs over the years besides I Need You Tonight. Reo Speedwagon released songs from 1971 to 2007 spanning across albums like REO Speedwagon, R.E.O / T.W.O., Ridin' The Storm Out, Lost In A Dream, This Time We Mean It, R.E.O., You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish, Nine Lives, Hi Infidelity, Good Trouble, Wheels Are Turnin', Life As We Know It, The Earth, A Small Man, His Dog And A Chicken, Building The Bridge, and Find Your Own Way Home. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Reo Speedwagon.

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About Lyrics and I Need You Tonight by Reo Speedwagon

When you decide to study the lyrics to I Need You Tonight, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Reo Speedwagon. Some of the lyrics to I Need You Tonight have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Reo Speedwagon and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to I Need You Tonight if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to I Need You Tonight" means the words set to the music of I Need You Tonight, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Reo Speedwagon. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to I Need You Tonight and the lyrics to I Need You Tonight are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Reo Speedwagon who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Need You Tonight, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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